qoph @qoph@octodon.social
#Mefite (DM me for name). Non-Ivory Tower academic. she/her. "I beseech you in the bowels of christ think it possible you may be mistaken" Oliver Cromwell 1650
Me, but with Mastodon
RT @slpng_giants@twitter.com
This is a concentration camp for children.
Who is the tent manufacturer willing to profit from this?
Who is the bed manufacturer?
Who is the company willing to handle the data?
Who is the food supplier?
Who are the other companies willing to detain children for cash? https://twitter.com/nbcpolitics/status/1007358925556060161
"Centuries ago, American slaves understood this as they labored under the lash in booming economies―economies that included their full employment, but served only the interests of their ever-richer masters. We should understand it as well." #economy
https://portside.org/2018-06-13/who-benefits-booming-economy
RT @asociologist@twitter.com
Please share this letter from two faculty resigned from the University of Rochester over its failure to address pervasive sexual harassment:
https://www.docdroid.net/fVyD0q0/resignation.pdf
Morning, fediverse.
Hey. We all go through hard times. Don't beat yourself up about going through them.
In fact, in these moments we should be even more caring with ourselves and seek out others that encourage empathy and understanding, not the toxic 'just get over it' non-sense.
Your difficult moments do not define the totality of your beautiful self. Hang in there. You're going to get through it.
This week's #EarthFromSpace takes us over Mount Makalu in the #Himalayas, viewed by many as one of the world's most difficult mountains to climb.
🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrlE1qjemmk https://twitter.com/esa/status/1007535913407303681/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/esa/status/1007535913407303681
Sign at vet’s office.
For those of you who don't mind buying from Amazon, I have a couple of novels available. #CreativeToots
My author page is amazon.com/author/matthewgraybosch
To everybody else: I'm working on new editions and publishing outside Amazon. I have free, CC-licensed material available on my website at https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/starbreaker/.
I write #sciencefantasy with #thriller and #romance elements.
RT @uppittynegress@twitter.com
Yo. Sex work is empowering- for some people.
Sex work is not empowering for others.
Neither of those situations negate the need for sex worker rights to be seen as legit labor rights. You deserve to work safely regardless of how much you love your job.
Happy Wednesday, gorgeous fediversians.
Anger is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's useful. You feel it for a reason, so you should always pay attention, but it may not be for the reason you think.
Keep your boundaries firm, but be slow to anger. If you feel that heat rising, get into the habit of taking a step back to measure it before reacting.
You'd be surprised what you can discover about yourself by exercising a little self reflection in the moment.
My cishetwhitemale sweetie, explaining to me why so many cishet men act like they wouldn’t say considerate, loving things about their romantic partners unless those partners are watching/listening: “They think of women as sex appliances. Or they’re scared of being called pussywhipped.”
DHS plans to massively expand its collection of data on citizens and foreigners, combining everything from biometrics to information about people’s “relationship patterns” and “encounters” with officers.
This plan is fatally flawed and must be stopped. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-securitys-massive-new-database-will-include-face-recognition-dna-and source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1006270018470809601
WE WANT TO PAY YOU FOR MICRO SCI-FI! This is an open call for diverse sci-fi writers that never expires.
- POC
- LGBTQIA
- Indigenous
- Neurodiverse
- Disabled
- Chronically ill
- All marginalised voices
We're open from Day 10-24 every month. storyseedvault.com/submissions
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
-- Bertrand Russell
I think it's good people are talking about the differences in platforms and all that, but the blind side I see over and over again from white people no matter how they align politically is that they assume their experience is the baseline. And it isn't.
If you are white, you simply do not have the same experiences as non-white people online. If you're a dude, you are not a target like women are.
A common failing is that white people tend to assume interactions are uniform.
This is false.
Yo, we _need_ diversity. It's that simple. We cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect thing to change.
We need women, LGBTI, Black, Brown, Native folks in the game because we need their ideas to push the community and culture forward. We need to make our spaces _more_ appealing to them because we need them. We need their insight, knowledge and experience to find solutions that elude dominant culture.
Diversity isn't a bullet point. It's literally life.
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